Spatial FormationsSAGE Publications, 13 juin 1996 - 384 pages This essential guide to social theory and space is written by one of the leading writers in the field. Nigel Thrift explores the interconnections among people, places and things and demonstrates why they must be examined in relation to each other rather than in isolation - as is too often the case. Spatial Formations presents a formidable analysis of how space is socially constructed, unmade and reconstructed. Thrift provides the reader with a direct understanding of how social theory can be used to make sense of spatial forms and practices, and how spatial relations are made durable over space and time. These themes are developed through case studies, ranging from medieval time consciousness to the modern usage of m |
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... theory is not , of course , only concerned with how power is constructed . It also , and rather usefully , fills in other lacunae in theories of practices ; of which five are particularly noteworthy . First , it provides a means of ...
... theory is not , of course , only concerned with how power is constructed . It also , and rather usefully , fills in other lacunae in theories of practices ; of which five are particularly noteworthy . First , it provides a means of ...
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... theory and knowledge generation ( Birmingham , 1989 ; Probyn , 1990 ; Haraway , 1991 ) . Second , Giddens asserts the importance of still doing social theory in a particular way . To read some writers nowadays , social theory is ...
... theory and knowledge generation ( Birmingham , 1989 ; Probyn , 1990 ; Haraway , 1991 ) . Second , Giddens asserts the importance of still doing social theory in a particular way . To read some writers nowadays , social theory is ...
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... theory.3 This is a proposition that appeals , naturally enough , to empiricists , who deal only in the given as it gives itself and who continually mistake a minute description of some regularity for theory . But it also finds allies ...
... theory.3 This is a proposition that appeals , naturally enough , to empiricists , who deal only in the given as it gives itself and who continually mistake a minute description of some regularity for theory . But it also finds allies ...
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Earlier | 51 |
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time | 63 |
A Geography of Knowledge | 96 |
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